Senatorial candidate and human rights defender Chel Diokno on Monday, March 7, thumbed down the Duterte administration's planned use of nuclear energy to boost the country's thinning energy resources. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) The human rights lawyer...
Vice President Leni Robredo lamented the country’s supply of energy is the “number one concern now” as she called for the development of indigenous energy sources to alleviate the rising energy prices. Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP photo) Robredo, a presidential aspirant, was asked about...
In collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has developed photon upconversion (UC) solid materials with outstanding performance that can improve the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. By artificial photosynthesis, water is split into oxygen and hydrogen....
Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation has launched a collaboration with Mazda Philippines to offset CO 2 emissions, making Mazda the first in the car dealership industry to drive carbon neutrality in the Philippines. “We are happy that as we take part in the Voluntary Carbon Offset programme,...
Fearing that the world might die by year 2100, Partido Reporma chairman and standard-bearer Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson on Wednesday, Nov. 17 said he has been taking the issue of climate change seriously for the sake of future generations who will inherit the Philippines. In a recent radio...
The Philippines has called on Western economies to act now in significantly reducing their carbon footprints, and make good on their commitments to extend the financing needed by climate-vulnerable countries to transition to a clean energy future. Speaking at the 2021 Asian Infrastructure...
Speaking Out Ignacio R. Bunye Believing that all our efforts will be for naught if the environment we live in has already been damaged beyond repair, Ayala President and CEO Fernando Zobel de Ayala (FZA) , formally announced last week the conglomerate’s commitment to take the lead in...
Globe Telecom Inc. currently employs over 7,400 green solutions to reduce carbon emissions across its network. Better yet, by 2030, it will upgrade its infrastructure and retrofit its industries to make them sustainable and slash CO2 emissions by 30 percent, the telco today (May 25) stated. “We...
Despite the dominance of coal plants in the country’s energy mix, Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi forthrightly stated that the Philippines is not ready for ‘carbon tax enforcement’ because such policy could worsen the travails of consumers on high cost of power that they are already...
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI)'s Contecon Guayaquil (CGSA) in Ecuador recently handled the first carbon-neutral container shipment in the world. CGSA's logistics process employed environment-friendly supply chain players, from the export to the port and distribution. Carbon...
